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Index
Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by President Bill Clinton
Introduction by James Shapiro
Anonymous: The Pausing American Loyalist (1776)
Jonathan M. Sewall: Epilogue to Coriolanus (1778)
Peter Markoe: The Tragic Genius of Shakspeare; An Ode (1787)
John Adams: Letter to John Quincy Adams (1805)
Washington Irving: Stratford-on-Avon (1820)
Charles Sprague: Prize Ode (1824)
John Quincy Adams: The Character of Desdemona (1836)
Edgar Allan Poe: Hazlitt's Characters of Shakspeare (1845)
J.M.W.: First Impressions of Miss Cushman's "Romeo" (1846)
Maungwudaus: "Indians of North America" (1848)
Anonymous: Account of the Terrific and Fatal Riot at the New-York Astor Place Opera House (1849)
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Shakspeare; or, the Poet (1850)
Herman Melville: Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)
William Wells Brown: Ira Aldridge (1862)
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Recollections of a Gifted Woman (1863)
Emily Dickinson: Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day (1863)
Henry Timrod: Address Delivered at the Opening of the New Theatre at Richmond (1863)
Abraham Lincoln: Letter to James H. Hackett (1863)
Mark Twain: The Killing of Julius Cæsar "Localized" (1864)
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Shakespeare. Tercentennial Celebration. April 23, 1864
John Wilkes Booth: Letter to the National Intelligencer (1865)
Herman Melville: "The Coming Storm" (1866)
G.W.H. Griffin: "Shylock," A Burlesque (c. 1867)
Mary Preston: Othello (1869)
Frederick Wadsworth Loring: In the Old Churchyard at Fredericksburg (1870)
Walt Whitman: What Lurks behind Shakspere's Historical Plays? (1884)
William Winter: The Art of Edwin Booth: Hamlet (1893)
William Dean Howells: Shakespeare (1895)
Willa Cather: from Between the Acts (1894); Antony and Cleopatra (1895)
Henry Cabot Lodge: Shakespeare's Americanisms (1895)
Jane Addams: A Modern Lear (1895)
Belle Marshall Locke: The Hiartville Shakespeare Club (1896)
Henry James: The Birthplace (1903)
Mark Twain: Autobiographical Dictation (1909)
George Santayana: Shakespeare: Made in America (1915)
Robert Frost: 'Out, Out--' (1916)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Shakespeare's Heroines as Human Beings (1916)
Charles Mills Gayley: Heart of the Race (1916)
T. S. Eliot: Hamlet and His Problems (1919)
William Carlos Williams: To Mark Anthony in Heaven (1920)
Lorenz Hart and Morrie Ryskind: Shakespeares of 1922
Stark Young: John Barrymore's Hamlet (1922)
George F. Whicher: Shakespeare for America (1931)
Joseph Quincy Adams: Shakespeare and American Culture (1932)
James Thurber: The Macbeth Murder Mystery (1937)
Sidney B. Whipple: Orson Welles's Julius Caesar (1937)
Toshio Mori: Japanese Hamlet (1939)
Langston Hughes: Shakespeare in Harlem (1942)
Samuel Sillen: Paul Robeson's Othello (1943)
James Agee: Laurence Olivier's Henry V (1946)
Maurice Evans: Preface to G. I. Hamlet (1947)
Cole Porter: Brush Up Your Shakespeare (1948)
Hollis Alpert: The Abuse of Greatness (1953)
Isaac Asimov: The Immortal Bard (1954)
John Berryman: Shakespeare's Last Word: Justice and Redemption (1955)
Lord Buckley: Hipsters, Flipsters, and Finger-Poppin' Daddies (1955)
Hyam Plutzik: Carlus (1960)
Mary McCarthy: General Macbeth (1962)
Adrienne Rich: After Dark (1966)
Pauline Kael: Orson Welles: There Ain't No Way (1967)
John Houseman: from Run-Through (1972)
Walter McDonald: Caliban in Blue (1976)
Gloria Naylor: Cora Lee (1982)
Dramatists Guild Landmark Symposium: West Side Story (1985)
Frank Rich and Joseph Papp: The Shakespeare Marathon (1989)
Sam Wanamaker: Address to the Royal Society of Arts (1990)
Jane Smiley: Shakespeare in Iceland (1996)
Cynthia Ozick: Actors (1998)
BJ Ward: Daily Grind (2002)
Jen Bervin: from NETS (2004)
Sources and Acknowledgments
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